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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR and we are their guests.
NCAR has security regulations in effect that we must follow in
order to use the facility. If any RMIUG attendee is unwilling to
follow these simple regulations, I would ask that he or she not
attend and instead read the minutes after the meeting. At the
last meeting, an uncooperative RMIUG attendee almost cost us the
use of the NCAR facility for good.

Here are the NCAR security policies that must be followed:

1. No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including providing ID
if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation and courtesy are
expected when dealing with NCAR staff.

If there are any questions or concerns with this policy, please
contact me directly. Thanks, Dan Murray (dan@...).
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The Tuesday, May 13th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet
Users Group (RMIUG) will feature a panel discussion called
"Google-fest 2003: All Things Google." Every day, Google serves
200 million searches. Over 100,000 advertisers have flocked
to the company so far and Google's annual revenues, according
to a recent New York Times article, may top $750 million
dollars in 2003, more than doubling last year's figures.

So what does all this mean to us? Whether you need to
regularly dig deep to find useful information on the Net
or have a business need to bring in more qualified site
traffic, Google has become the de facto force in the
Internet search space that cannot be ignored. Our panel
will cover how to become a Google power-user and give us an
overview of search engine advertising as well as where Google
fits into the mix. We'll also get a peek at some upcoming
changes coming to Google's advertising offerings.

Chris Sherman (csherman@...) is Editor of SearchDay,
a daily newsletter from SearchEngineWatch.com and President
of Searchwise, a Boulder-based Web consulting firm. Chris
will present a talk on "Power Searching with Google" that
covers how to get the most out of this impressive search engine.
Google offers a bevy of goodies that are a boon to searchers,
but they're not always easy to find -- and some are undocumented.
We'll learn how to use these heavy-duty power tools to push
Google to its maximum effectiveness. Chris has written about
search and search engines since 1994 and co-manages the largest
search engine conference in the industry, "Search Engine
Strategies" with fellow search guru Danny Sullivan.

Tim Moynihan (tmoynihan@...) is Google's Regional Sales
Manager for Mountain States and heads up the Denver office of
Google. Tim will give a talk entitled, "Search engine
advertising - the evolution to Pay-per-click and how to make
your ad dollars count." He will cover how search engine
advertising works, who the players are, how the business model
has changed over time and fill us in on Google's current and
future approach in this arena.


URL's of interest:
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SearchEngineWatch.com, http://www.searchenginewatch.com
Searchwise, http://www.searchwise.net/
SearchDay daily newsletter,
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/index.php
Search Engine Strategies, http://searchenginestrategies.com/
Google, http://www.google.com
Google AdWords, https://adwords.google.com


The meeting is Tuesday, May 13th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm (with
optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) at 1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to
NCAR from the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for approximately 2.5
miles into the foothills. NCAR is at the top of the hill. For
door-to-door driving directions, go to MapQuest
(http://www.mapquest.com/ ), click on Driving Directions, enter
your starting address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point you to meeting,
which is held in the main auditorium, right off the lobby. The
meeting is free and open to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.

Our meeting location seats about 120 people. That is usually enough
room to accommodate all attendees, but it's impossible for us to
predict how many people will show up for any given meeting. Seating
is always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the event of
more attendees than seats, we won't be able to admit additional
people into the auditorium after all seats are filled.

Thanks to our two sponsors who help make RMIUG meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com) which provides Creative and
Technical Talent for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing
Communications and Software Development projects, is the sponsor
of food and beverages for RMIUG meetings.

ONEWARE (http://www.ONEWARE.com) -- a Colorado-based software
company that provides semi-custom web-based applications, sponsors
the RMIUG meeting minutes.


Consultants and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product information, brochures, and business cards which will be
displayed on an information table.

There are email mailing lists set up for this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html You can also
reach the RMIUG "Executive" Committee at rmiug-comm@.... Our
web site is at http://www.rmiug.org/

Tentative upcoming RMIUG meetings:
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TBD - "Blogging - The New Mouthpiece of the Net"
TBD - "Web Technology - What the Present and Future Holds"
TBD - "Starting an Internet/Software Company Today"
TBD - "Domain Update - Legal Issues & Technical Changes"
TBD - "Nonprofits on the Net - A Web of Activism"
TBD - "E-Learning: Did the Hype Ever Pan Out?"
TBD - "Instant Messaging vs. Email vs. Web"


(To suggest a topic, send your idea to rmiug-comm@...)